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Never before, not even during the performance of the famed Eifman Ballet at the National Theatre, had I seen the car park of Bahrain National Museum brimming the way it did last Thursday, the opening day of Bahrain International Book Fair.
The crowd of buyers was a fitting reply to the mocking tombstone erected by a Lebanese publisher, at the 1999 International Book Fair in Beirut, proclaiming, “The Arab reader, until proven otherwise.